écorché
Sign in to savethumb|upright|Écorché by Leonardo da Vinci. An écorché () is a figure drawn, painted, or sculpted showing the muscles of the body without skin, normally as a figure study for another work or as an exercise for a student artist. The architect and Renaissance man Leon Battista Alberti recommended that when painters intend to depict a nude, they should first arrange the muscles and bones, then depict the overlying skin.thumb|upright|Écorchéchisel (H. 33 cm. L 21.8 cm) realized after Peter Paul Rubens after 1640 by [[Paulus Pontius. - Engraving No. SNR - 3 PONTIUS. Photograph taken during the exhi
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thumb|upright|Écorché by Leonardo da Vinci. An écorché () is a figure drawn, painted, or sculpted showing the muscles of the body without skin, normally as a figure study for another work or as an exercise for a student artist. The architect and Renaissance man Leon Battista Alberti recommended that when painters intend to depict a nude, they should first arrange the muscles and bones, then depict the overlying skin.thumb|upright|Écorchéchisel (H. 33 cm. L 21.8 cm) realized after Peter Paul Rubens after 1640 by [[Paulus Pontius. - Engraving No. SNR - 3 PONTIUS. Photograph taken during the exhibition Rubens Europe - Louvre Museum .]] thumb|130px|Terracotta Anatomical study by Willem van den Broecke,1563
Some of the first well known studies of this kind were performed by Leonardo da Vinci, who dissected cadavers and created detailed drawings of them. However, there are some accounts of this same practice taking place as far back as ancient Greece, though the specifics are not known.